NVadsA10_v5 sizes series

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11/15/2024

The NVadsA10v5-series virtual machines are powered by NVIDIA A10 GPUs and AMD EPYC 74F3V(Milan) CPUs with a base frequency of 3.2 GHz, all-cores peak frequency of 4.0 GHz. With NVadsA10v5-series Azure is introducing virtual machines with partial NVIDIA GPUs. Pick the right sized virtual machine for GPU accelerated graphics applications and virtual desktops starting at 1/6th of a GPU with 4-GiB frame buffer to a full A10 GPU with 24-GiB frame buffer. Each virtual machine instance in NVadsA10v5-series comes with a GRID license. This license gives you the flexibility to use an NV instance as a virtual workstation for a single user, or 25 concurrent users can connect to the VM for a virtual application scenario.

Host specifications

Part	Quantity ^{Count Units}	Specs ^{SKU ID, Performance Units, etc.}
Processor	6 - 72 vCPUs	AMD EPYC 74F3v (Milan) [x86-64]
Memory	55 - 880 GiB
Local Storage	1 Disk	180 - 2880 GiB
Remote Storage	4 - 32 Disks	6400 - 80000 IOPS 100 - 1200 MBps
Network	1 - 8 NICs	5000 - 80000 Mbps
Accelerators	1/6 - 2 GPUs	Nvidia A10 GPU (24GB)

Feature support

Premium Storage: Supported
Premium Storage caching: Supported
Live Migration: Supported
Memory Preserving Updates: Not Supported
Generation 2 VMs: Supported
Generation 1 VMs: Supported
Accelerated Networking: Supported
Ephemeral OS Disk: Supported
Nested Virtualization: Not Supported

Sizes in series

vCPUs (Qty.) and Memory for each size

Size Name	vCPUs (Qty.)	Memory (GB)
Standard_NV6ads_A10_v5	6	55
Standard_NV12ads_A10_v5	12	110
Standard_NV18ads_A10_v5	18	220
Standard_NV36ads_A10_v5	36	440
Standard_NV36adms_A10_v5	36	880
Standard_NV72ads_A10_v5	72	880

VM Basics resources

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Local (temp) storage info for each size

Size Name	Max Temp Storage Disks (Qty.)	Temp Disk Size (GiB)
Standard_NV6ads_A10_v5	1	180
Standard_NV12ads_A10_v5	1	360
Standard_NV18ads_A10_v5	1	720
Standard_NV36ads_A10_v5	1	1440
Standard_NV36adms_A10_v5	1	2880
Standard_NV72ads_A10_v5	1	2880

Storage resources

Table definitions

¹Temp disk speed often differs between RR (Random Read) and RW (Random Write) operations. RR operations are typically faster than RW operations. The RW speed is usually slower than the RR speed on series where only the RR speed value is listed.
Storage capacity is shown in units of GiB or 1024^3 bytes. When you compare disks measured in GB (1000^3 bytes) to disks measured in GiB (1024^3) remember that capacity numbers given in GiB may appear smaller. For example, 1023 GiB = 1098.4 GB.
Disk throughput is measured in input/output operations per second (IOPS) and MBps where MBps = 10^6 bytes/sec.
To learn how to get the best storage performance for your VMs, see Virtual machine and disk performance.

Remote (uncached) storage info for each size

Size Name	Max Remote Storage Disks (Qty.)	Uncached Disk IOPS	Uncached Disk Speed (MBps)
Standard_NV6ads_A10_v5	4	6400	100
Standard_NV12ads_A10_v5	4	12800	200
Standard_NV18ads_A10_v5	8	25600	384
Standard_NV36ads_A10_v5	16	51200	768
Standard_NV36adms_A10_v5	32	51200	768
Standard_NV72ads_A10_v5	32	80000	1200

Storage resources

Table definitions

¹Some sizes support bursting to temporarily increase disk performance. Burst speeds can be maintained for up to 30 minutes at a time.
²Special Storage refers to either Ultra Disk or Premium SSD v2 storage.
Storage capacity is shown in units of GiB or 1024^3 bytes. When you compare disks measured in GB (1000^3 bytes) to disks measured in GiB (1024^3) remember that capacity numbers given in GiB may appear smaller. For example, 1023 GiB = 1098.4 GB.
Disk throughput is measured in input/output operations per second (IOPS) and MBps where MBps = 10^6 bytes/sec.
Data disks can operate in cached or uncached modes. For cached data disk operation, the host cache mode is set to ReadOnly or ReadWrite. For uncached data disk operation, the host cache mode is set to None.
To learn how to get the best storage performance for your VMs, see Virtual machine and disk performance.

Network interface info for each size

Size Name	Max NICs (Qty.)	Max Bandwidth (Mbps)
Standard_NV6ads_A10_v5	1	5000
Standard_NV12ads_A10_v5	2	10000
Standard_NV18ads_A10_v5	4	20000
Standard_NV36ads_A10_v5	4	40000
Standard_NV36adms_A10_v5	8	80000
Standard_NV72ads_A10_v5	8	80000

Networking resources

Table definitions

Expected network bandwidth is the maximum aggregated bandwidth allocated per VM type across all NICs, for all destinations. For more information, see Virtual machine network bandwidth
Upper limits aren't guaranteed. Limits offer guidance for selecting the right VM type for the intended application. Actual network performance will depend on several factors including network congestion, application loads, and network settings. For information on optimizing network throughput, see Optimize network throughput for Azure virtual machines.
To achieve the expected network performance on Linux or Windows, you may need to select a specific version or optimize your VM. For more information, see Bandwidth/Throughput testing (NTTTCP).

Accelerator (GPUs, FPGAs, etc.) info for each size

Size Name	Accelerators (Qty.)	Accelerator-Memory (GB)
Standard_NV6ads_A10_v5	1/6	4
Standard_NV12ads_A10_v5	1/3	8
Standard_NV18ads_A10_v5	1/2	12
Standard_NV36ads_A10_v5	1	24
Standard_NV36adms_A10_v5	1	24
Standard_NV72ads_A10_v5	2	48

Other size information

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NVadsA10_v5 sizes series

Host specifications

Feature support

Sizes in series

VM Basics resources

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